Henderson: Liverpool must bounce back immediately from Swansea defeat

Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson is eager to see a quick response from his Reds team-mates if they are to continue their hunt for the Premier League title, following defeat to Swansea City.

A Roberto Firmino brace brought Jurgen Klopp’s men back from a two-goal deficit after strikes from Fernando Llorente had given the Swans the lead at Anfield.

But Gylfi Sigurdsson scored on the counter-attack just five minutes after Firmino’s equaliser to send the Reds to a 3-2 defeat – their first league loss on home soil in over a year.

The result leaves Liverpool languishing seven points behind league leaders Chelsea, but Henderson is confident his side can bounce back as they look to overturn Southampton’s one-goal advantage in their EFL Cup semi-final second leg on Wednesday.

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Asked if Saturday’s defeat was a fatal blow to their title campaign, Henderson said: “No-one knows that, we’ll find out at the end of the season.

“But it’s how you react after defeats, that’s how you can show character, show your spirit and show how good you are as a team in the game after.

“The next game is very important for us, and we need to react in the right way.”

And despite being disappointed by the way his side threw away the points, Henderson insists confidence remains high in the Liverpool camp.

“One defeat doesn’t make you a bad team, we’ve still got a lot of confidence in the squad,” he said.

“When we went 2-0 down you could see we still felt as though we could get back in it, which we did.

“But maybe we were pushing that bit too much for the third and we needed to be a bit more patient, as we got done on the counter.

“So, we’re very disappointed but the games come thick and fast and we need to be ready for the next one.

“We still feel very confident as a team, we’ve got brilliant players and we just need to keep going the way we have.”